In this photo, UnitedHealthcare health insurance company signage is displayed on an office building … More
The surprising news that UnitedHealth Group was lowering its profit forecasts for 2025 shocked Wall Street and investors but the company still made more than $6 billion and is growing rapidly.
UnitedHealth Group chief executive officer Andrew…
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A older patient is guided into a CT scanner — an essential diagnostic tool whose life-saving power … More
Computed tomography (CT) scans may be one of the greatest innovations in modern medicine — fast, detailed and essential for diagnosing everything from traumatic injuries to cancer. But a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine has reignited a complex and sometimes controversial debate on CT…
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The Trump administration has reportedly disrupted over 100 clinical trials. Science News spoke to researchers about the impacts on four of them.
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The immune system is comprised of various cells that work in concert to fight off disease. The two immune responses, innate and adaptive, are orchestrated to build a specific reaction to the invading pathogen. Dendritic cells are what connect the two responses. Specifically, dendritic cells will take proteins from the infected cells and present that piece of protein or antigen outside its surface. The expressed antigen is then detected by T cells, which…
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Food allergies are slowly increasing within first world countries. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 8% of children and 11% of adults are affected by food allergies in America. Allergic reactions to food occur when the body’s immune system recognizes specific foods as foreign. As a result, the immune system builds a response and reacts. Reactions can range from mild to severe and include symptoms such as…
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UnitedHealth Group’s 2025 first quarter profits eclipsed $6 billion but the nation’s largest health … More
UnitedHealth Group’s first quarter profits eclipsed $6 billion but the…
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People have been posting videos on TikTok using the catchphrase “probably needed a hug” to show … More
In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, one of the characters Sammy explained, “What I’m saying is all I really want is someone to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be all right.” Well, there’s a TikTok trend and hashtag, #probablyneededahug, that’s…
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A new study by Brown University researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles — microscopic bits of gold thousands of times thinner than a human hair — might one day be used to help restore vision in people with macular degeneration and other retinal disorders.
In a study published in the journal ACS Nano and supported by the National Institutes of Health, the research team showed that nanoparticles injected into the retina can successfully stimulate the visual system and restore vision in…
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A new study has found important clues about the roles age, sex, hormonal changes and genetics play in how certain biomarkers for dementia are expressed in the blood, according to a study published on April 16, 2025, online in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
“Blood tests that detect biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are emerging and as these tests are further developed, they are becoming important tools for understanding and…
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Physicians classify brain tumors and determine treatment options, in part, by the genes they express. According to World Health Organization standards, the abnormal activation of oncogene FOXR2 only occurs in central nervous system (CNS) neuroblastoma, but that may not be true. Findings from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital show FOXR2 activation in multiple pediatric CNS tumor types, mostly brain tumors, with significantly different clinical outcomes. The potentially practice-changing…
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